Imperial China chose to set in stone the Confucian classics.

中国人则在石头上镌刻了一套儒家经典。

This began imperial China's one of the new emperor's most important tasks was modernizing his empire.

这开始了新皇帝最重要的任务之一就是使他的帝国现代化 。

Again to our ears, that probably sounds like a bit of a veiled insult, but in imperial China where rank was everything.

对我们来说，这可能听起来有点含蓄的侮辱，但在封建时代的中国，地位就是一切。

Without a doubt, she was a remarkable figure a woman who rose to power in a man's world and then proceeded to reform imperial China in ways, no man had ever dreamed.

毫无疑问，她是一个了不起的人物，一个在男人的世界里获得权力的女人，然后继续以男人做梦都想不到的方式改革封建中国。